MORRIS HILLS REGISTERS FIRST VICTORY OF SEASONKnights waiting in wings for consolation foe

ROCKAWAY - Morris Hills football coach Pat
Bobo went from "deja-vu" with one city team last Saturday to
"deja-sue" with another city team this past Monday.

On Saturday, he watched helplessly as
Tajiddin Smith ran 89 yards with a fumble recovery to score a
Weequahic TD, the exact play that helped Weequahic beat Morris
Hills by a TD last season.

Then, on Monday he read that Newark mayor
Sharpe James was so annoyed that Bobo's consolation game opponent
Newark-West Side didn't make the playoffs, he was planning to
request a court injunction to stop the playoffs.

West Side was 6-2 at the time of the cutoff
for the playoff but had 37 power points which placed it in ninth
place and out of the eight-team Sec. 2, Gr. 3 field.

Meanwhile, Morris Hills was able to bounce
back from that fumble-recovery TD and go on to beat Weequahic,
42-6.

West Side, however, is another story. That
game is scheduled to take place Friday night at West Side and Bobo
hopes to deal with it on the field, not in the courts.

James is seeking the injunction because he
thinks the power point system that the NJSIAA uses to determine its
playoff brackets is "… inherently unfair to urban schools in
general."

He also pointed out that West Side's 6-2
record was better than Shabazz (4-4), East Orange (4-4), Clifford
Scott (5-3) and Hackettstown (5-3) - teams that did make the
playoffs on the basis of a higher power point totals.

James did not point out, however, that
Shabazz, East Orange and Clifford Scott were urban
schools.

The victory over Weequahic (1-7) evened
Morris Hills record at 4-4 but it wasn't enough to vault them ahead
of West Side (6-2) on the power-point parade and into a home-field
consolation game.

Jon Addison, who carried the ball 20 times
for 120 yards and two TDs, got Morris Hills on the board in the
first period when he bolted in from the 3-yard line

Smith's 89-yard sprint with a recovered
Morris Hills fumble in the second quarter had Bobo shaking his head
but Jerry Casale got that TD back with a 2-yard run later in the
period to give Morris Hills a 14-8 lead at the half.

In the third period, Addison scored on a
2-yard run and Alan Kotteles ran back a punt 29 yards for the
Hills' second TD of the second half.

Ryan McCoach scored on a 21-yard run in the
fourth period and Gremier Alemany scored the game's final TD when
he recovered a Weequahic fumble in its own end zone.

"We should have scored more in the first
half," Bobo said. "A procedure penalty brought back a long pass
that would have put us deep in their territory and then we fumbled
the ball away as we were going in for another score.

"All in all, though, we played a good game …
especially our running attack and especially our sweep."

Bobo pointed out that pulling guards James
Curley and Anthony Genovese made the outside game work with their
blocking and McCoach, Guye Winfield, Ben Kehoe and Doug Strowbridge
added to it with their running.

The line also did a fine job blocking on the
fullback trap as Addison and Casale picked up key yardage when the
Knight needed it."

The defense held Weequahic in check
throughout the game, allowing but 97 total yards - 70 rushing and
27 passing.

"John Tiedemann played well at tackle as did
the whole defensive line," Bobo says. "You have to be doing
something well if the other teams gets only 70 rushing
yards."

The game was the last home game for the
seniors, something that was not lost on Bobo.

"I'm happy for the guys who are graduating,"
he says. "It was their last time on Gifford Field and I'm glad they
went out with a victory."

After Hills faces Hillside Saturday, they
will conclude their season with Friday at Mount Olive on Nov. 16 at
7 p.m.

NOTES - McCoach rushed five times for 64
yards and Casale had 47 yards rushing in seven carries … add that
to Addison's 120 yards and that just about accounts for Morris
Hills' 282 total rushing yards for the game … Shawn McCauley, the
Knights regular place kicker, suffered a hip-pointer had his
kicking duties taken over by McCoach, who promptly went 5-for-5 in
conversion kicks.

Jack Guilfoyle downed a Dan McDonald punt on
the Weequahic 6-inch line to set up a short punt and an ensuing
Morris Hills TD in the third period … Genovese had a team leading
six tackles while Guilfoyle and Tiedemann each had five … junior DE
Bob Moody had a sack …

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